Senator Byrd Quotes

#1. The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate.

David C. Hardesty Jr.

#2. Strong leaders don't plead with individuals to perform.

Bill Walsh

#3. Senator Paul Sarbanes really was a big help to me. He was so well known and so well respected, and he said, "Give her a chance here." And he showed me the ways of power and the corridors of power, [as did] Bob Byrd. [They] helped with [my] committee assignments.

Barbara Mikulski

#4. As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build ...

Rainer Maria Rilke

#5. I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment ... He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.

Christopher Dodd

#6. The door opened to reveal Janie gleefully putting the finishing touches of the bright pink polish on Max's hands.
"Nice timing," the solider said with a grimace.
Talen snorted. "You're relieved, in case you need to powder your cheeks.

Rebecca Zanetti

#7. I learned one thing from jumping motorcycles that was of great value on the golf course, the putting green especially: Whatever you do, don't come up short.

Evel Knievel

#8. Fie, wrangling queen!
Whom everything becomes, to chide, to laugh,
To weep; whose every passion fully strives
To make itself, in thee, fair and admired!

William Shakespeare